Containing summer friendships, whispered secrets, and a dark, hidden truth, Felicity McLean’s "The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone" is poignant and jarring. Cordelia, Hannah, and Ruth Van Apfel’s disappearances sear through the palpable... Read More

Upset at the cost of prenatal care, hospital deliveries, unpaid leave, and years of childcare? Imagine if all the eighteen- to forty-year-old women in the US simply refused to have babies. Do you think Washington and corporate America... Read More

Little known outside of Palestine, Sophie Halaby was a Russian-Arab painter, Jerusalemite, and member of a prominent Christian family. Laura S. Schor’s "Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem" is a careful, elegant portrait that highlights the... Read More

A compelling tale of family and faith with a paranormal twist, Shawn Smucker’s "Light from Distant Stars" probes at questions of good, evil, and whether anyone—or anything—is ever just one or the other. After Cohen finds his father... Read More

Rhodopis is stolen from her home in Greece and sold down the Nile where divine intervention—and a small, red slip-on shoe—attract Pharaoh’s attention. Inspired by the earliest known accounts of a poor girl whose luck is changed... Read More